John Parsons Shillingford

John Parsons Shillingford CBE FRCP (1914–1999) was a British physician and cardiologist, known as a pioneer of the introduction of coronary care units in the UK in the 1960s.[1][2]

John Parsons Shillingford
Born(1914-04-15)15 April 1914
London
Died16 September 1999(1999-09-16) (aged 85)
Richmond, London
OccupationCardiologist
Known forLumleian Lectures (1972)

Biography

After education at Bishop's Stortford College, John Parsons Shillingford studied at the London Hospital Medical School. At the beginning of WWII he won a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship to Harvard Medical School and graduated there MD (Harvard) in 1943. He held medical residency appointments at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1945. He graduated MB BS (London) in 1945 and MD (London) in 1948. After WWII, he worked at the London Hospital until 1950. In 1950 John McMichael, who was forming research teams, recruited Shillingford to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. Shillingford's research team studied the narrowing of the arteries that occurs with ageing. He promoted engineering and biophysics in cardiovascular research.[1]

He headed the Medical Research Council's cardiovascular unit, and his engineering interests and skills led to several diagnostic innovations.[2]

He published over 400 articles that form the basis of much of our current understanding of heart disease.[1]

His major contributions were in the study and care of patients in the acute stages of heart attack, at a time when little was offered beyond pain relief. ... He was appointed to the chair of angiocardiography at the University of London in 1969 ... In the 1960s he realised that research into heart disease was underfunded and, together with Sir John McMichael, supported the recently formed British Heart Foundation.[2]

In 1947 in Brentford, Middlesex, he married Doris Margaret ('Jill') Franklin (1917–1992). Upon his death in 1999 he was survived by two sons and a daughter.[2]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

References
  1. "John Parsons Shillingford". Munk's Roll, Volume XI, Royal College of Physicians.
  2. Shillingford, M. (27 November 1999). "Obituary. John ("Jack") Parsons Shillingford". BMJ. 319 (7222): 1438. doi:10.1136/bmj.319.7222.1438. PMC 1117166. PMID 10574885.
  3. "CBE appointments" (PDF). Supplement to the London Gazette. 11 June 1988.
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